Announcements

Brief items

Announcing AndroidQuestions.org

The Questions Network has announced that AndroidQuestions.org is officially out of beta and open for business. "AndroidQuestions.org is for the discussion of all Android-related topics; from phones, tablets and other hardware devices to Android applications and development."

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Articles of interest

Adobe: Android is the Linux desktop

Adobe has announced that it will no longer be producing versions of Adobe AIR - or security updates - for desktop Linux; instead, they see Android as the future. Some more information can be found in this blog entry: "So, with Desktop Linux, we see a basically flat growth curve hovering around 1%. And since the release of AIR, we've seen only a 0.5% download share for desktop Linux. For Android and IOS we see substantial growth in share, and see predictions that indicate that in the Mobile OS market, the Android share could be 46%, with iOS at 16% (IDC March 2011)."

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SCOTUS makes patent holders happy (ars technica)

Ars technica reports on the US Supreme Court's ruling in the i4i case. "In a New York Times op-ed supporting Microsoft, UCLA law professor Doug Lichtman had argued that changing the standard of proof would 'give relief to the countless businesses that today find themselves vulnerable to patents that shouldn't have been issued in the first place.' A wide variety of companies and public interest groups, including Google, Red Hat, Walmart, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the Apache Software Foundation, filed briefs echoing that point. But the Supreme Court decided that whatever the merits of these policy arguments, they couldn't overrule the text of the patent law and the courts' long history of employing the higher standard."

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linux.conf.au finally controls domain name (iTWire)

ITwire reports that the well-known Linux conference linux.conf.au finally owns the domain name. ""So I'm very pleased to announce that, from this point onwards, the linux.conf.au domain will be available all year round, rather than the somewhat traditional six monthly on/off cycle that many conference regulars have become familiar with," wrote [Linux Australia president John] Ferlito."

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Proprietary software keeps users helpless (TechRadar)

TechRadar covers a Linux Format Magazine interview with Richard Stallman. "In fact, when the open source philosophy spreads a lot - which it has - it tends to close people's minds to the ideas of free software. It even tends to cover up our existence. Most of the articles that talk about the GNU system, they don't call it the GNU system and they don't call it free software. They describe it as open source, and they give the impression that we - its developers - agree with the open source ideas that the readers have heard of already, and would never guess at what we're really standing for."

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Calls for Presentations

PyTexas 2011 Call for Proposals

The fourth annual Python programming conference for Texas and the surrounding region (PyTexas 2011) will take place September 10-11, 2011 in College Station, Texas. The call for proposals is open until July 16.

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Upcoming Events

Explore Java 7 at OSCON Java

OSCON Java will take place July 25-27, 2011; co-located with O'Reilly's Open Source Convention (OSCON) in Portland, Oregon.

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USB mini-summit at LinuxCon Vancouver

There will be a USB mini-summit on August 16, 2011 at LinuxCon Vancouver. "Proposed topics include USB virtualization, and improved bandwidth APIs between the USB core and drivers (especially webcam drivers). See the detailed topic list below. Anyone is also welcome to propose or show up with a USB related topic. MUSB? USB 3.0 gadget drivers? USB-IP?"

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X.Org Developers Conference 2011

The X.Org Developers' Conference (XDC2011) will be held September 12-14, 2011 in Chicago, Illinois.

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Events: June 23, 2011 to August 22, 2011

The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.

Date(s)	Event	Location
June 20 June 26	EuroPython 2011	Florence, Italy
June 21 June 24	Open Source Bridge	Portland, OR, USA
June 27 June 29	YAPC::NA	Asheville, NC, USA
June 29	Scilab conference 2011	Palaiseau, France
June 29 July 2	12º Fórum Internacional Software Livre	Porto Alegre, Brazil
July 9 July 14	Libre Software Meeting / Rencontres mondiales du logiciel libre	Strasbourg, France
July 11 July 12	PostgreSQL Clustering, High Availability and Replication	Cambridge, UK
July 11 July 15	Ubuntu Developer Week	online event,
July 11 July 16	SciPy 2011	Austin, TX, USA
July 15 July 17	State of the Map Europe 2011	Wien, Austria
July 17 July 23	DebCamp	Banja Luka, Bosnia
July 19	Getting Started with C++ Unit Testing in Linux	,
July 24 July 30	DebConf11	Banja Luka, Bosnia
July 25 July 29	OSCON 2011	Portland, OR, USA
July 30 July 31	PyOhio 2011	Columbus, OH, USA
July 30 August 6	Linux Beer Hike (LinuxBierWanderung)	Lanersbach, Tux, Austria
August 4 August 7	Wikimania 2011	Haifa, Israel
August 6 August 12	Desktop Summit	Berlin, Germany
August 10 August 12	USENIX Security ’11: 20th USENIX Security Symposium	San Francisco, CA, USA
August 10 August 14	Chaos Communication Camp 2011	Finowfurt, Germany
August 13 August 14	OggCamp 11	Farnham, UK
August 15 August 16	KVM Forum 2011	Vancouver, BC, Canada
August 15 August 17	YAPC::Europe 2011 “Modern Perl”	Riga, Latvia
August 17 August 19	LinuxCon North America 2011	Vancouver, Canada
August 20 August 21	PyCon Australia	Sydney, Australia
August 20 August 21	Conference for Open Source Coders, Users and Promoters	Tapei, Taiwan

If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.

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